It doesn’t multitask (yawn), there’s no camera (yet) and it doesn’t render flash animation, but it fills a niche that most people seem to be overlooking. The iPad is for the bifocal set. It’s a big iPod Touch with big buttons and the ability to have big text.
It will have a camera at some point. It might even get blessed with a front facing and a rear facing camera at the same time. Apple might even surprise everyone and sneak a camera into the first model that is still 2 months away.
I don’t need flash support. Lots of people don’t need flash support. The loss of the moving advertising and flashy websites won’t be mourned very loudly. I surf the web for information that helps me learn something or make money. I know that there are a bunch of neat games to play on the web that are flash based, but I don’t care. I don’t have time for it.
Pick up your iPhone and feel how thin and solid it is. Move some things around the screen and open an app or two. It’s a great little chunk of technology and the iPad is more of the same. When you pick one up in the Apple Store this summer, you’ll want one, even if it isn’t perfect.
No I won’t. It’s a technological solution to a problem that doesn’t exist, or at least doesn’t exist in big enough numbers to support anything resembling a market.
you are 20 years younger than the target market